So we're wandering Dana Mall looking for a place to eat after a movie, and going down the escalator I see a guy with a clipboard eyeing us. He waits at the bottom of the stairs, wearing his ill-fitting suit and a flashy tie. We know we'll be stopped, we just don't know what for. It's to late to try and run up the escalator.

We're caught. Clipboard guy promises us a free holiday at a 5 star resort if we go to a presentation. One week, anywhere in the world, if we will just seat through a 2 -hour presentation.

Last time we were in Egypt, clipboard people abducted us -- Anis, his parents and I -- as we came out of a short Nile Cruise. They took us to a tiny air conditioned room, and offered us a world of holiday opportunities if only we'd sat through a 2 hour presentation. We tried to decline and they sort of took us hostage for a few minutes. It was weird and all in arabic, us four and every minute one more clipboard person coming into the tiny room, and they couldn't believe we were declining their amazing offer. We literary had to break out and escape. They wouldn't let us go peacefully. But we did.

Back to Dana Mall. We let the guy talk and ended up agreeing to go to the lecture. We had been watching 4 seasons of Alias back-to back, and secretly hoped he was actually a recruiter for a secret service agency.

The Friday after we went to the presentation, at an office in Almoayed Tower in Seef.